Gaddafi family ‘flee to Algeria’

29 August 2011 Last updated at 13:48 ET

The wife and three children of fugitive Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi have entered Algeria, the Algerian foreign ministry says.

Algeria’s APS news agency quoted the foreign ministry as saying that Col Gaddafi’s wife Safia, daughter Ayesha and sons Muhammad and Hannibal had crossed into Algeria early on Monday.

The report came as rebels in Libya were trying to overcome the pockets of resistance by Gaddafi loyalists.

Col Gaddafi’s whereabouts are unknown.

The arrival of Col Gaddafi’s wife and three children in Algeria had been reported to the UN and to Libyan rebel authorities, the Algerian foreign ministry said.

It said they had crossed the border between Libya and Algeria at 08:45 local time (07:45 GMT) on Monday.

The BBC’s Jon Leyne in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi said first word of such a move had already come from Libyan rebel headquarters two days ago, and that at the time, Algerian authorities denied that a heavily armed convoy had crossed the border.

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